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A southwest Missouri man who shot and killed his wife and her parents because he was upset his in-laws would not leave their house has been sentenced to life in prison.

“My main focus is internal and what I can do to get better and help this team win. That’s always been my number one focus," Knizner said.

John Mozeliak, St. Louis Cardinals President of Baseball Operations, spent nearly half an hour Saturday discussing the team's offseason and future with media members.

Five Years Ago This week in 2018, Germany’s new hate speech law was straight out the gates with two incidents of collateral damage. Trump was complaining about the US’s “very weak” libel laws, perhaps because Steve Bannon’s publisher was very unimpressed with Trump’s defamation threats. Meanwhile, Dennis Prager was seeking an injunction against YouTube and […]

As preparation for my leukopheresis next month, when T-cells will be extracted from my bloodsteam, my body needs to be cleaned up as much as possible. That means stopping the chemo treatments. Hooray! But yesterday I learned that it also means stopping the Evil Dex™. Doubleplus hooray! I already feel a little better, and within ...continue reading "Health and astronomy update"

A new report claims that most utility companies in the U.S. contaminate groundwater and evade federal regulations, including four energy plants in the St. Louis area. Patricia Schuba, president of the board of Labadie Environmental Organization, talks about why she’s concerned, what St. Louisans can do to protect their home’s water supply and what people can do to change things and hold companies accountable.

A St. Louis jury on Friday awarded $5 million to a woman who claimed her daughter was prescribed "dangerously high" doses of amphetamines.

The man was found safe in Cincinnati, Ohio.

On Monday, CBS News published a report saying that "a small number" of classified documents had been discovered while cleaning out Joe Biden's old office at the Penn Biden Center. Subsequent reports put the number of documents at about ten. On Wednesday, NBC News reported that more classified documents had been found in Biden's garage ...continue reading "About that nothingburger . . ."

A new Missouri law prohibits people from sleeping, camping or setting up shelter on state-owned land.

A new study is out that tries to measure the effectiveness of social media advertising campaigns in political races. The unique part of this study is that it makes use of an actual advertising campaign during the 2020 presidential contest that deliberately held out a control group so that its effectiveness could be measured: We ...continue reading "Social media can be pretty effective in political contests"

Officers were called just after 8 p.m. Friday to the 4200 block of North 21st Street where they found Tamera Plummer, 27, police said.